Dr Jason Cheah is currently the Deputy Group CEO (Strategy, Planning and Resourcing) of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and the CEO of Woodlands Health (WH). He is also Adjunct Professor at the LKC School of Medicine.
Dr Cheah oversees cluster-wide strategy, finance, communications, resourcing and planning functions in NHG. These include driving financial and systemic changes within the Group towards accountable care, implementing capitation design, cost management, and workforce transformation. He also oversees and drives the organisational transformation roadmap and implementation plans for NHG, while also working to strengthen the organization's culture and identity.
From 2014 to 2024, Dr Cheah also led in the development, commissioning and opening of the Woodlands Health Campus. Woodlands Health (WH), which is a member of the NHG, is Singapore’s newest Public Healthcare Hospital, serving the needs of the North-Western population in Singapore. It includes a fully integrated acute and community hospital, specialist outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities and green healing spaces. The Campus officially opened in July 2024. It has a capacity of up to 1000 hospital beds and 400 nursing home and hospice beds.
From 2009 to 2018, Dr Cheah was Chief Executive Officer of the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC), which commissions, supports, enables and plans the sector develop for aged care, primary care and mental health services in the community. Prior to that, Dr Cheah was Chief Executive Officer of the NHG Polyclinics from November 2005 to 2009 where he led in the modernisation of the polyclinics and the establishment of Family Physician Clinics and new models of care.
Prior to 2009, Dr Cheah was in various roles in clinical services development and operations in various public and private hospitals, and also in the Ministry of Health, Singapore.